Volpone Adoring His Treasure | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1986.679
People: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title: Volpone Adoring His Treasure
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1898
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/294710

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black ink and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions: 29 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna], sold; to Scofield Thayer, 1922, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year: 1986
Object Number: 1986.679
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL, 2014), pp. 58, 186
Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, pp. 451, 458, 459

Exhibition History

Something Terrible May Happen: The Works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward “Ned” I.R. Jennings, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, 10/20/2023 - 03/10/2024

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1986.679: Volpone Adoring His Treasure